A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

ET on Jan. 31 | "The alleged rescission of the OMB Directive was in name-only and may have been issued simply to defeat the ...

President Trump signed an executive order calling for a federal "funding freeze," and Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) subsequently issued ...

The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday advanced Russell Vought’s nomination as Office of Management and Budget director, ...

An internal OMB document shows that it is official administration policy to block funding to provoke a constitutional ...

The nominee’s combative disdain for Congress’s power of the purse makes him unqualified.

Donald Trump's effort to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants is the most provocative of his many attempts to expand his power in the first days of his presidency. Several legal experts say ...

Buried within one of the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in his first days in office is a ...

I t’s pretty clear, and not especially surprising, that the second Trump administration has immediately launched a number of initiatives aimed at testing the outer limits of pre ...

Everyone from Chuck Schumer to JB Pritzker is scrambling to mount a resistance in the form of messaging, litigation and ...

For example, Trump cannot on his own repeal legislation like the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act. But OMB could ...

Watch live as Trump continues his crackdown on illegal immigration and takes executive action on federal aid and DEI initiatives.